Anosh Steffin Gomes

Founder - stealth biotech 🧬 | Slightly obsessed with Mitochondria and Biology | Nullius in verba

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

2025 has been the most pivotal year of my life.

I quit my job to start a biotech company - with the mission to discover & develop medicines that can change people's lives.

What I hold in my hands is the first drug that my team and I created, atom by atom, and that could potentially help cancer patients in the future.

Earlier this year, when my co-founder and I had a novel idea for a cancer drug, we pitched to investors for funding.

The biotech funding environment sucked, and we couldn't raise (AI was sucking up all the oxygen).

So we funded it with our own savings.

Fast forward 9 months, we have our lead drug + in vivo POC data and more - all without a single dollar in investor funding.

Mid-year, we raised a modest sum to further support development.

If we pull this off - we will have bootstrapped a biotech company, which is wild to say out loud.

Discovering cures for diseases is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I can't believe I get to do this now, and I want to share my journey with all of you.

We have some amazing things in store of 2026!

LFG 🚀

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@CamdenHutchison It's emotional. When a minority ethnic group rises to the top of the economic hierarchy, overtaking the native ethnic group, it invites hate. The reason is simple - the natives wonder why they are behind, and reason it must be at the fault of the group that surpassed them.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@owl_posting Accurate - novel biology is the best differentiator against AI and China. One other question that's rarely asked: what would it take for a US based biotech company to be as cheap as a chinese biotech company?

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@miranowhere This is a misunderstanding. The concept of diversity is practiced in non white countries too, like India. However it exists in a manner that's mostly not tied to skin color (note mostly). Because in those regions the differences among ppl are primarily languages and cultural.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@luckenco Watches are art that you wear.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@cremieuxrecueil When Bryan launched the "Don't Die" thing - he underestimated the amount of pressure it puts on healthy people to *not die* because now longevity is at the cusp. And that drives up health anxiety for general people.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@nimivashi15 Absolutely! Will be my pleasure. I just got back from Chicago (ASCO) - went to this south indian restaurant called Trilokah (not far from downtown) and it was amazing! Happy to give more recs :)

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

Coming soon 👀

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@parmita You just summarized this app in one sentence

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@LocasaleLab I might not agree with u but I respect your counter points. However, please don't consider these comments as coming from intellectually honest people (most of these could be bots or troll accounts). You should see some of the comments I get because of my profile picture.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

Now write a counter to your counter - put yourself in the shoes of the patient from the sub 10%. How would you feel? Now put yourself in the position of the doc who had to tell these pts to get their affairs in order for yrs. How would you feel? Science progresses in increments. It's absolutely fine to celebrate the small steps to get there.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@cremieuxrecueil Absolutely. I've been following this due to personal interest - my wife, also Indian, has high Lp(a) and I can't wait for this drug to be approved. Her father, never smoker, vegan, decent lifestyle had a heart attack at 50. We're being very aggressive about our CVD risk.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@cremieuxrecueil Very exciting! Hypertension is the gateway for heart attacks. And the south Indian Asian population seems to be disproportionately affected by hypertension. Once these meds make their way through these societies, the number of lives saved will be countless!

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@PatrickHeizer For people who claim 3-5 million is what's required, they'll simply just move that goalpost the minute they hit that NW. You can retire (and people have) with far less than that. People on this app have a widely distorted reality on what it takes to be independent

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@Steezehuman Many in this thread who say you can't retire with $800K, certainly don't have $800K.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@joulee Correct. For most people salaries are on a net basis, a better path for wealth creation.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@kangminlee What do I notice? That you conveniently leave out Microsoft and Google 🤣
Sir, it's ok. You can stop your shtick now...

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

This push back is warranted. I'm all for people living healthy lives. But this fixation on longevity is making people less resilient. The human body is remarkably resilient, just do a few things right, stop worrying and you'll live a very long and healthy life.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Have a glass. Get some sleep. Stop tracking yourself. The millennial fixation with wearable devices and health optimization is pointless quackery. https://t.co/P2JJIeLhqQ

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@Dearme2_ Sunlight, exercise and laughter.

[Anosh Steffin Gomes @steffingomes]

@AbiChittin Answer: Movie Production Companies. They foot the bill for him to look like this.